Key players in GOP’s anti-Trump movement are preparing to launch an independent presidential campaign for Evan McMullin — a CIA veteran and the chief policy director of the House Republican conference — sources close to the effort told BuzzFeed News.

Veteran Republican strategist Rick Wilson, a Florida-based media consultant and outspoken Trump critic, is expected to be involved in McMullin’s campaign. Sources said Wilson was in Washington on Sunday meeting with members of McMullin’s prospective campaign — which includes some who were involved in a group called Better for America, which has been pushing an independent presidential bid.

The state department's release of Hillary emails may be over, but that of Wikileaks is just starting.

Moments ago, Julian Assange's whistleblower organization released over 19,000 emails and more than 8,000 attachments from the Democratic National Committee. This is part one of their new Hillary Leaks series, Wikileaks said in press release. To wit:

Today, Friday 22 July 2016 at 10:30am EDT, WikiLeaks releases 19,252 emails and 8,034 attachments from the top of the US Democratic National Committee -- part one of our new Hillary Leaks series. The leaks come from the accounts of seven key figures in the DNC: Communications Director Luis Miranda (10770 emails), National Finance Director Jordon Kaplan (3797 emails), Finance Chief of Staff Scott Comer (3095 emails),
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Remember the tea party movement a few years ago? The protests? The rallies?

“Taxed enough already?” “Stop Spending!”

In 2010, a number of tea party Republicans took Washington by storm: Outsiders like Kentucky’s Rand Paul and Utah’s Mike Lee were elected to the U.S. Senate; Michigan’s Justin Amash, Idaho’s Raul Labrador, South Carolina’s Mick Mulvaney and others were elected to the House. Kentucky’s Thomas Massie and others would follow in 2012 and 2014.

You hear a lot of talk about the GOP establishment delegates and how they plan to steal the nomination from frontrunner, Donald Trump and maybe even Ted Cruz too. But who exactly are they?

It’s a political jungle so I will describe some of the fowl as metaphors. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

#1) The Backyard, Short-Winged, Sparrow-Darters.

These are folks who owe their position to the higher party leaders. They do what they are told and in return get to hold onto their positions. Some are respectable County Chairman. They invariably end up as delegates to the National Convention. They don’t make any money out of the arrangement but occasionally get
...

Apart from the current candidates, some RNC members have a bitter aftertaste from an obscure skirmish over rules at the 2012 convention. Romney backers raised the bar for how candidates could qualify on the convention ballot, in order to avoid any symbolic floor votes for Ron Paul.

"I really didn't like what happened in 2012," says committee member Peter Feaman. "The Romney folks silenced it with the rule change — we didn't need to do this, and it alienated the Ron Paul supporters — and for what? It was like taking a fly off someone's forehead with an ax," he said.

A group of Republicans is moving quickly to research ballot-access requirements for independent candidates in case Trump wraps up the GOP nomination next month.

By Scott Bland

Conservative donors have engaged a major GOP consulting firm in Florida to research the feasibility of mounting a late, independent run for president amid growing fears that Donald Trump could win the Republican nomination.

A memo prepared for the group zeroes in on ballot access as a looming obstacle for any independent candidate, along with actually identifying a viable, widely known contender and coalescing financial support for that person. The two states with the earliest deadlines for independent candidates, Texas and North Carolina, also have some of the highest hurdles
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Sen. Rand Paul is poised to make his return to the main-stage Republican presidential debate on Thursday.

The cutoff for the polls that will be used to decide which candidates qualify for the main stage and which are bumped down to the undercard debate is 5 p.m. on Tuesday. The Paul campaign earlier in the day announced a conference call “with political reporters this evening to discuss the 2016 election cycle, Iowa caucus, and upcoming RNC/Fox News debate.”

Fox News has set the same criteria for qualification as last week’s Fox Business debate: The top six candidates in national polls, plus any other candidates in the top five in either

Sen. Rand Paul wasn't on stage Thursday night for the sixth Republican primary debate, but he still managed to perform better than his rivals across social media, with the exception of Donald Trump.

The Kentucky senator and GOP presidential hopeful skipped the undercard debate and main event Thursday, after being told he didn't qualify for the top-tier event. Instead, he held his own virtual town hall event, a move that allowed him to receive more new followers and mentions on Twitter and Facebook than five of the six candidates who were on stage during the prime-time debate.

According to data collected by the digital firm Engagement Labs and shared with the

Rand Paul appears to be a victim of bad timing.
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The network made that decision based on Paul’s standing in public polls.
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But a new Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll in Iowa released Wednesday morning has Paul at 5 percent — alone in fifth place. In fact, if the Des Moines Register poll is included on the list of the five most recent polls, it gets Paul into a tie for fifth place with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 4.2 percent. That, presumably, would get Paul onto the main stage.

It’s true that the Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll was released 36 hours after Fox Business’ deadline for inclusion. But it

A CNN reporter who was recently suspended for two weeks for violating the network’s editorial guidelines showed up in a new trove of State Department emails released on Tuesday in which she appears to have coordinated social media posts with a top Hillary Clinton State Department aide during the former secretary of state’s Jan. 23, 2013 Senate testimony about the Benghazi attacks.

The emails, which were released to the website Gawker, show that Elise Labott, a foreign affairs reporter at CNN, took guidance from Clinton aide Philippe Reines by posting a tweet criticizing Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul for asking Clinton tough questions during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks.

Labott also coordinated with Reines to post a favorable quote from Clinton’s testimony, which she gave just a week before she left office.

In the Reines emails, which are the subject of a Gawker lawsuit against the State Department, Labott appears to pick up on a previous conversation she was having with Reines during the Benghazi hearing, asking him: “are you sure rand paul wasn’t at any hearings?”

Five minutes after sending that email, Labott sent Reines another message sharing what she had tweeted about Paul.

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
JULY 22, 2015
A hidden-camera video released last week purported to show that Planned Parenthood illegally sells tissue from aborted fetuses. It shows nothing of the sort. But it is the latest in a series of unrelenting attacks on Planned Parenthood, which offers health care services to millions of people every year. The politicians howling to defund Planned Parenthood care nothing about the truth here, being perfectly willing to undermine women’s reproductive rights any way they can.

The nine-minute video clip released by the Center for Medical Progress,
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June 27, 2015 – Richmond, VA – During their regular, quarterly meeting, the Virginia Republican State Central Committee (SCC) decided today to hold a Primary on March 1, 2016 – on so-called Super Tuesday – as the means the Virginia GOP will use to bind their delegates for the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

The debate, highlighted by a compromise proposal put forth by SCC Member Chip Muir, calls for a Presidential Primary in 2016 and a GOP Convention for the Commonwealth’s three State-Wide offices in 2017.

The elected SCC is made up of a various number of representatives from each Congressional District – with additional members if that District has a Republican Member of Congress and if that District went Republican in the last Presidential election. Additionally, members of the General Assembly and the leadership of statewide GOP organizations like the Virginia Federation of Republican Women, College Republicans and Young Republicans have representation on the SCC.

I hear by ask, and nominate that our own "Ron Paul Hawaii" Micheal run for president in 2020 :)
He by far represents the liberty movement, and has sacrificed much more than any of us to try and preserve our nation.

Here is the story:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/01/politics/senate-extends-iran-sanctions/
here is the roll call (H R 6297):
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2016/roll577.xml
Thomas was the ONLY one to vote against it.

Art with humor and a political message can say alot. The political cartoon, or editorial cartoon as wiki likes to call it, has a great history. I love these things and would like to see what you all come up with.
http://www.davegranlund.com
Post new ones you find, your favorites, or even draw and upload one yourself!

I don't know about you all but I'm in tears out of happiness!! This has been just an AMAZING day! We again wrote history!! I want to thank each of you from the bottom of my heart for choosing freedom! I love you guys!

Ron Paul & Rand Paul: News & Discussion

It's not over yet. They're still after Ron Paul. Don't read this on a full stomach. -
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/09/how-the-alt-right-became-racist-part-2-long-before-trump-white-nationalists-flocked-to-ron-paul/
Unfortunately the libertarians aren't representing well in the comments. More alt-righters there than real libertarians and they're predictably either impenetrably nerdy or...

2016 Presidential Election

WIKILEAKS JUST DID IT ! They connected Clintons to pedophile ring. Developing...
Laura Silsby! It is happening.
FBI / Wikileaks are working together. The_Donald sub reddit is leading the charge.
BE A PART OF HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go to twitter - Wikileaks account. I can't access on work computer. I saw the feed on mobile twitter.

I've spent the last 30+ hours on YouTube and Fedbook watching this insane meltdown. They've gone from criticising Trump for saying he won't accept election results, to themselves not accepting the results. It's racist that Trump wants to build a wall, but now they want to build a wall separating CA, OR, WA and NV from the rest of the US. Oh yeah and millions of racist messages saying $#@! white...

A lot of great information has been posted in recent weeks, but it's scattered about the forum.
How about we aggregate it all in one place, for easy access?
Post what you got (repetition is fine, having multiple sources is a good thing)
*material for jokes, witticisms, insults, memes, etc also welcome, in addition to policy issues
:toady: is the beginning of the end of...

Three Million Votes Were Cast By Illegal Aliens
Millions of votes were cast by illegal aliens in the recent 2016 election held in the United States. Since they are held to determine the government of the United States, participation in these elections has traditionally been limited to citizens of the United States. However, many commentators and human rights advocacy groups see this policy...

From the start it were only Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald Trump in the spotlight (even in Europe they get shoved down our throat), and because nobody will vote for any politician they don’t know, it’s the media that decides who wins. Last July 26, Hillary accepted the official nomination, while a few days earlier Trump became the nominee for the Democrat-Republicans.
You cannot seriously...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gunman-charged-threatening-dc-restaurant-hit-fake-news-030914425.html
The headline: "Gunman charged after threatening DC restaurant hit by fake news"
So this is their excuse to shut down alt media. Don't give them excuses, people.:mad:

Ok, let me explain my rationale for posting this in Us Politics.
In light of the electoral college whining, it's very clear not too many
people know what purpose the EC serves or why it was put in place.
Crowder put out a great video debunking EC myths and uses quotes from the
founders to explain why it was put in place.
Which led me to conclude, many people quote the US Constitution...

With Attacks On The Rise, Sens. Casey and Scott Introduce Bipartisan Anti-Semitism Awareness Act
(posted in entirety)
Washington, DC– Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Tim Scott (R-SC) introduced the bipartisan Anti-Semitism Awareness Act in an effort to combat increasing incidents of anti-Semitism on college campuses nationwide. The Senators joined together to ensure the U.S....

Natural Health News has requested a retraction/apology over the Washignton Post's Russian fake news story and threatened a law suit.
Now Naked Capitalism has sent a lawyer letter to the Washington Post
http://fakenews.news/2016/12/05/naked-capitalism-demands-apologyretraction-washington-post-fake-news-story/

Saw this ICO which is novel
https://chronobank.io/
Labour-Hour Stable Coins
The first stage of our project is to create the financial backbone of ChronoBank.io: national Labour-Hour (LH) tokens.
LH are linked to average hourly wages in the host country and are backed by a real labour force from big recruitment and labour-hire companies.
Labour is abundant enough for everyone to have...

US avoided a D-DAY (10/11/2016)
My wife and my daughter had a trip to North Europe from 9/23 to 10/2. I think it was arranged by the feds(FBI and DEA). To my experience, it used to be arranged with murder plot. (Both on me and my relatives) Also if the murder plot had been successful, there would be big events taking place to distract public's attention from a small killing case in...

Bitcoin Chart

Living Free and Healthy

This fall the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new Chief Oyarde if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was a chief in a modern society, he’d never learned the old tribal secrets. He couldn’t look at the sky to predict what the winter was going to be like.
"It's going to be a very cold winter."
So just to be on the safe side, Oyarde told his tribe that the...

It appears freedom living is safer than over grooming:
Removing Your Pubic Hair Is Linked To A Heightened Risk Of STIs
But researchers aren’t quite sure why.
12/07/2016
Anna Almendrala Senior Healthy Living Editor, The Huffington Post

So, after half a century of turning the country upside down to make everything "safe", banning any industry or machinery that gives off more than unicorn farts for emissions, a million health fatwas of all sorts, total war declared on some drugs and spending insane amounts of money on "health care" the result is:
Life Expectancy In U.S. Drops For First Time In Decades, Report Finds
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The power of positive thinking: Optimism can fend off cancer, heart disease and infection for EIGHT years
By Harry Pettit For Mailonline
Published: 16:00 EST, 7 December 2016
Having a more positive outlook on life may help people live longer.
A new study has revealed that women who are optimistic are less likely to die from cancer, heart disease, stroke, infection, and several other...

Education & Thought Power

...lately i've been hearing a lot republicrats with microphones working their holes about 'fake news'...as if 'fake news' is something new...:rolleyes:
...'the attack on pearl harbor' fascinates me...i was wondering, among other things, if any of you had any 'hard evidence' of united states attacks on japanese ships, etc., prior to 'the attack on pearl harbor'...
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Highly renowned intellectual thinker Richard Spencer once said that the Alt-Right is a wide spectrum of beliefs. I think I have unfairly lumped them into one group and treated them all like they are the same. I came to this comclusion after doing some more research on people who identify as alt-right. So lets take a look at the different types of people in the alt-right. Please tell me if...

Some of you may or may not be surprised by this, But I was a supporter of the public option, back when it was still a part of the health insurance bill.
2 facts about the public option as it was written
1. It's optional to be enrolled
2. It's optional to pay for it.
So, In general, to receive public option benefits, you would have to pay a premium, just like any other insurance...